North Hall

North Hall is a house of 1794, constructed with a symmetrical design, accompanied by two lower, detached structures on either side, set back and connected by low brick walls, creating a forecourt to the main garden front. This front is enclosed by wrought-iron rails and regularly spaced brick piers. The house is two storeys high with an attic. The south-east facade presents a 2-window, 1-window, 2-window arrangement, featuring a steeply pitched tiled hipped roof, two flat-roofed dormers, and a fully-moulded modillion cornice. The central projecting section has an open pediment containing a lunette. The facade is constructed from red brick in Flemish bond, with rubbed flat arches and stone cills, resting on a plinth. Sashes are set within reveals. The doorcase incorporates a segmental pediment, cornice, pulvinated frieze, scroll brackets supporting narrow panelled pilasters, an architrave with numerous carved mouldings, a fanlight with curved glazing, a half-glazed door, and a curving stone staircase supported by wrought-iron rails. The enclosed courtyard, with paved footways, features brick piers topped with stone busts on moulded square bases and thin moulded caps; brick walls support wrought-iron rails with ornamental details. These rails are raised to create decorative tops for the full-height gates, positioned near the house on each side and along the axis of the forecourt. The north-west elevation is similar in form, recessed in the centre with a 1-window, 3-window, 1-window arrangement, including a dormer above a round-headed window set above the central door. The doorcase is akin to the south-east doorcase, with a cornice, frieze, carved brackets above narrow panelled pilasters, an architrave, and a half-glazed door. The sides continue this elevational treatment, featuring four windows on the south-west side, and five windows with a small arched doorway on the north-east. The flanking units mirror the front’s symmetry; the south-west unit has a small hipped dormer above two windows with projecting quoins, and the other unit is slightly wider, of two storeys with an arched window above a round-headed doorway set in a slightly projecting brick frame with a gable. The sides of the wings are plain and irregular in their other elevations.